1. Petrarca - Noun
2. Petrarca - Proper noun
an Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374)
Source: WordNetI am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame. Pietro Aretino
The poet Francesco Petrarca spent some time there, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti called him to take charge of the magnificent library which owned about a thousand books and manuscripts, subsequently lost. Source: Internet